Using Site Right

1. Start from power. Under Power in the filters, set how close a 345 kV or larger station must be (500 kV counts in Virginia). Or click a power line on the map to list the land along it.
2. Then the land. Under Land, set the least acreage you need, and pick the zoning answers you can live with.
3. Open a site. “Best here” lists the best sites on screen, darker dots score higher. Click a row or a dot for the site's profile.
4. Keep the good ones. Press Add to shortlist on a profile. Your whole company shares one shortlist.
5. Ask the assistant anything the filters can't say, in plain words.

The map keeps your place: refresh, go back or send the link, and it opens on the same spot and site.

Each profile leads with the same eight facts, so sites compare quickly. Everything else (owners, the score's parts, nearby data centers, documents) folds under them.

Land

How many acres sit together under one owner, how many owners, and how far the site could grow by adding neighbours.

Availability

Whether the land looks free to buy. Usually one to confirm with the owner; signs of a deal already made show at the top of the profile.

Power

The nearest substation, its voltage, the distance to it, and the utility that serves the land.

Power evidence

Grid work planned or under study near the site, from the grid operator's lists, and roughly how much load the land could hold.

Approvals

Whether a data center is allowed on the land: no zoning, by right, permit needed, rezoning, or not listed. Local votes and moratoria show here too.

Gas and water

The nearest large gas line and its owner, and the water provider, if one is mapped.

Environment

Floodplain, wetland, slope and what covers the land today (cleared farmland, forest, buildings).

Price

The county's appraised value per acre, and how it compares with the county's typical acre.

Every fact carries one of three labels, so you know what to check before you call an owner or a utility.

• Confirmed read in a named public record: the appraisal roll, the utility's map, the zoning code. The profile names the source.
• Inferred worked out from such records, for example what covers the land from a satellite-based map. Good for screening; check it before relying on it.
• To confirm not known from public records, with who would know (usually the owner, the utility or the planning office).

A fact we do not know never rules a site out. Some of the best sites are the ones with the least public data.

The score, out of 100, sorts sites by power, land and approvals together. It is a way to rank, not a prediction of approval; open the profile to see what earned the points.

Spare capacity at a substation is not published anywhere, so Site Right never states it. The utility's study answers it; the profile says which utility to ask.

No zoning

Unincorporated land, or a county or township with no zoning. Texas counties cannot zone, so this is the common case there, and a good answer: no rezoning to win.

By right

The local code lists data centers in the land's district without a hearing.

Permit needed

Allowed with a special or conditional use permit: a public hearing and conditions.

Rezoning

No district the land is in lists the use; the local board would have to rezone it.

Not listed

The code does not mention data centers at all; ask the planning office how it would treat one.

Unknown

We have not read the code for that place yet. It is never a reason to rule a site out.

A broker sent you a pin, or you hold an option? Use Evaluate a site: give an address, coordinates, a parcel ID, a boundary drawn on the map, or a KML or GeoJSON file. Site Right scores it with the same rules as every site on the map, ranks it against the sites around it, and writes one page with the path to power, the local record, the owner and what could stop it. It takes two to four minutes, and your whole company can open it after.

Ask the way you would brief a broker: “300 acres within a mile of 345 kV with no floodplain”, “compare these two”, “what could stop this one?”, or paste coordinates to screen a property. It searches the same data as the map, names its sources, and every number in an answer is checked against what it looked up.

The sites an answer lists are marked on the map, numbered as listed. It can also suggest a change (set the filters, add to your shortlist, evaluate a site); nothing changes until you press Accept.

From the shortlist you can compare sites side by side, print them as one page, or download a Google Earth file (each outline with the power within two miles) or a spreadsheet.

Preview is free and shows five sample counties, one in each state: Floyd County in Texas, Mecklenburg County in Virginia, Madison County in Ohio, Northampton County in Pennsylvania and Bartow County in Georgia, so you can see how Site Right reads a place. Scout shows every scored site in one state you choose. Pro shows every state we cover.

When something is outside your plan, Site Right says so rather than showing an empty answer. Plans and billing shows what your plan includes and is where you choose or change a plan.

Parcels follow each county's appraisal or assessment roll; power lines and substations follow OpenStreetMap; local votes and moratoria are checked against city and county pages and local news. The Sources page, inside the app, gives each layer's date. Data and licences lists every source.